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Yellowtab ZetayellowTAB Zeta is an operating system developed by yellowTAB of Germany based on the BeOS operating system developed by Be Incorporated. Currently at the public Release Candidate phase, the only available version is Zeta Neo. The Zeta operating system is an effort to bring BeOS up to date, adding modern features like USB support, that have been introduced in competing operating systems in the years since Be Incorporated ceased development in 1999. However, some commentators point to a list of goals for the first non-beta release that do not appear to have been met (including Java 1.4.2 and ODBC support). Other reviewers point to the bugs that still exist from the original BeOS operating system and question whether yellowTAB have the complete access to the source code they would need to make significant updates. Additional controversy has come from their bundling of Gobe Productive in a licencing deal which Gobe had disputed. The CEO of Gobe has since then been fired, letting Gobe and yT solve the problem amicably. However, despite the criticism, Zeta has contributed to revitalising the BeOS commercial software market, with a number of new products for both Zeta and pure BeOS being released, including a CAD clone called AtomoCAD. In October 2004, yellowTAB announced Zeta Neo. The reason for the name change is due to the largely increased feature set. New features include VoIP support, and a new media player, as well as enhanced localization of system components and a re-engineering of some important preference interfaces. This version is still not the official release, and the name change is suspected to be heavily influnced by marketing decisions. In December 2004 yellowTAB released a service pack for Neo which addresses a number of errors plaguing users of this latest release. The product has come under ridicule from some corners after a series of errors were made in their pre-release product, including RC1 having a broken loopback adapter and gzip being left out of Neo. The system has also come under heavy criticism from BeOS developers for the massive, undocumented changes in the system messaging system. The lack of documentation indicates that yellowTAB does not understand these changes, which break compilation of code, and in some cases, most notably Mozilla, break the actual application if any code optimisations are applied, resulting in much slower builds http://www.livejournal.com/community/bezilla/64711.html. In addition, a number of graphics applications are having problems receiving input events under Zeta http://bebits.com/app/3569, although they are supposedly fixed in current betas of the upcoming release. See also External links
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